If you need an invite to slack, just PM me your email address

whale dumper is back, but much smaller amounts this time

Not bitter, just observing and stating the facts.

Anyway, I finished coding the DB reentrancy logic, so now multiple threads can happily make any sort of DB request and this was needed to proceeding the debugging of Teleport.

Cassius is almost done with the Telepathy paper, so that will allow for review of the key concepts and the Windows build is almost done, along with Mac. longzai is making good progress on the GUI, so things are coming together. Still not the easiest thing to use, we will have to wait for nice GUI for that.

James

Imagine if SuperNET got the sort of press coverage blockNET did.

Anyway, SuperNET has over 5 dozen people active in slack, over 10000 messages already and a lot of activity is happening

Just ask for an invite if you want to help. I keep coding away and making progress, but there is only so much I can do and it will take the help of the community to fully actualize SuperNET. In fact, once my low level work is done, then I really become much less important and that is my goal.

Next year I want to be the leading SuperNET applications creator

By making dozens (yes dozens) of SuperNET reference applications, I will demonstrate how to make money via SuperNET. Similar to what I did with the NXT AE. Instead of telling people via fancy graphics and press releases, I will just do it and let the market decide how much they like it.

longzai is making very good progress on the GUI and soon we should have end user Windows and Mac versions. The marketing guys are doing great work with helping explain things.

So, we are on track for end of year functional release of SuperNET. And if blockNET is ready in Q2 next year like they plan, i would be happy to help them interface to the SuperNET. They keep saying that only coins that let SuperNET buy 10% can join the SuperNET core, but this is false. Only the coins that want to be featured in the SuperNET GUI and getting the cross promotion and technical integration, need to let us buy 10%. If they just want to use the SuperNET services, any coin can do this. Theoretically it would be possible for a coin to make a SuperNET addon that has support for their services and they can bypass the whole selling 10% and getting the technical integration and cross promotion thing that some coins seem to not want.

If you were worried about the competition, then it is something to note, but remember that SuperNET is spending 1% on things like all this development, not 100%, so ignoring market fluctuations, the NAV will remain. The revenue projections are quite difficult to make and I priced it at 0 due to this. Long term, with a big user base, then of course the revenues will be quite significant, but this requires a lot of work, progress and most importantly cooperation among all the coins.

With SuperNET, we have financial ties with the core coins and this will be needed to ensure continued cooperation, especially if we are in a prolonged bear market. What is easy to join, is easy to unjoin and I much rather have few coins with long term commitment to build upon.

In any case, I am personally coding the vast majority of what is needed for SuperNET to function and I will do this. Everyone can see my progress on github and it is not a reference to some third party repo, but the actual code. With any privacy tech, this is absolutely vital. Maybe the fact that it is just one guy doing all the core work is a risk factor, but at least you know who is doing it and what I am doing. Kind of funny that SuperNET has an anon dev with totally open source and blocknet has a non-anon dev with closed source. Well, with all the recent actions by the USA govt, I might think that any non-anon anybody will be in for some legal issues, if not from the govt, from the class action lawyers. Those guys seem to be able to convince USA juries to award such large sums from such silly things, I wonder what they will do about blocknet claims of guaranteed financial gains.

I specifically priced the future revenues at zero due to the fact that the tech still had to be developed, user base created and then monetized. This certainly has a lot of potential, and I am quite optimistic of the results, even during these bear market days.

James

P.S. funny that SuperNET was immediately moved to the non-hotbed of activity called "Marketplace", but blocknet is allowed to stay in the main announcements thread.

It seems a lot of the altcoins used to buy the blocknet are being recycled to polo and sold at full price, so this is allowing the librexcoin owners to convert to BTC in large volumes. I am glad they limited altcoin sales to 20%, if they didnt, then they would have ended up with 90% altcoins with no markets. But they need to be able to sell what they get to pay their devs and contractors.

Not sure how much altcoins were used to buy the blocknet, but with Polo volumes at 80BTC against the main bittrex BTC sales of 240 BTC, about one third of block being sold is being recycled immediately. recent hours have higher volumes on polo vs bittrex. So the main function of this ITO is currently arbitraging the altcoins and providing massive liquidity to otherwise untradable coins.

Anyway, they wont have to worry about using their funds for NAV buywalls, as their NAV doesnt exist.

I am having the NAV recalculated and will put up another 57 BTC buywall. With overall decrease in prices, it will be lower than last time, but at least it will be there

James

edit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=829576.msg9377264#msg9377264

seems 500 BTC worth of altcoins got converted and will be sold via poloniex. Assuming the 500 BTC is counted toward the 850 BTC total, it does look like they will sell the required 850 BTC. And over time this 500 BTC of altcoins will be used to fund dev costs, XC -20%, NHZ -38%, Fibre -18%, bitswift -38%, sonic -22%, xcash -46%, but libbrex +18% and utilitycoin +15% are having good days. Now today is a pretty bad market day with BTC dropping down and end of month fiat bills, but regardless, when the flagship coins for blocknet XC and NHZ are down massively on IPO day, it does not bode well for those who were expecting to flip it for quick profits. With 500 BTC of blocknet purchased for the altcoins being resold on poloniex over the next week, there needs to be more than 500 BTC of real demand for there to be any aftermarket demand to keep the price at least stable. I wish blocknet no ill and hope they will do right by their investors and at least put up some buywall for their investors. Though at the current rate of 1 BTC per hour it is looking like they will end up with less than 500 BTC total. Still quite respectable considering 100% will be used for development/marketing costs. However, mastercoin has shown than money in the bank for dev costs is a secondary factor.

https://github.com/jl777/btcd

I pushed a SuperNET_mac.zip that has a standalone Mac build. It wont automatically connect to the network but should at least function and allow you to manually ping and try out API commands.

Need to unzip into your home directory and also make a SuperNET.conf file, so definitely not user friendly, but a start

James

https://github.com/jl777/btcd

I pushed a SuperNET_mac.zip that has a standalone Mac build. It wont automatically connect to the network but should at least function and allow you to manually ping and try out API commands.

Need to unzip into your home directory and also make a SuperNET.conf file, so definitely not user friendly, but a start

James

yes

curl -k --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "SuperNET", "params": ["{\"requestType\":\"getpeers\"}"]  }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' https://127.0.0.1:7777/

or just https://127.0.0.1:7777/{"requestType":"getpeers"}

or via RPC through BTCD

they all end up in the same place, just different paths

The SuperNET GUI is HTML5 app

i just ignore the clock and stay up for 30+ hrs and then sleep until I wake up. After first 30 hrs I slept for 14 hrs, but after the second 30+ hrs, only 4 hrs. debugging is work, but second half was mostly fiddling, not very strenuous thinking

So I had 2 "days", but in the real world 3 days went by

you dont believe me?
check github:

https://github.com/jl777/btcd/graphs/commit-activity
https://github.com/jl777/libjl777/graphs/commit-activity

200 commits over two days, debugging is work

yes and hopefully
when I am done coding the bulk of thing, I can concentrate on documenting it

Well, after back to back 30+ hour work "days", I got the new architecture pretty stable. Still some kinks, but for the most part working.

New commands:
{ "BTCDjson", "json" } // this supports sending SuperNET API commands
// there is also https access via web browser and curl and wget, so many ways to issue SuperNET API commands

{ "gotpacket", "msg", "dur", "ip_port" } // this is called when the BTCD gets a packet from one of its peers
{ "gotnewpeer", "ip_port" } // this is called when a new peer is discovered
{ "BTCDpoll" } // this mechanism is used to find out when the SuperNET wants to broadcast or narrowcast packets

{ "maketelepods", "amount", "coin" } // this creates telepods, must be multiples of 0.01
{ "telepodacct", "amount", "contact", "coin", "comment", "cmd", "withdraw" } // this command displays the current set of unspent telepods, either globally, by coin, by contact. also will support withdrawing telepods to a normal address and also create credit/debit journal entries. However, only the display of all the unspent telepods has been tested

Existing commands that at least worked in some cases.
   // Telepathy
    static char *getpeers[] = { (char *)getpeers_func, "getpeers", "V",  "scan", 0 };
    static char *addcontact[] = { (char *)addcontact_func, "addcontact", "V",  "handle", "acct", 0 };
    static char *removecontact[] = { (char *)removecontact_func, "removecontact", "V",  "contact", 0 };
    static char *dispcontact[] = { (char *)dispcontact_func, "dispcontact", "V",  "contact", 0 };
    static char *telepathy[] = { (char *)telepathy_func, "telepathy", "V",  "contact", "id", "type", "attach", 0 };
    static char *getdb[] = { (char *)getdb_func, "getdb", "V",  "contact", "id", "key", "dir", 0 };

    // Kademlia DHT
    static char *ping[] = { (char *)ping_func, "ping", "V", "pubkey", "ipaddr", "port", "destip", 0 };
    static char *pong[] = { (char *)pong_func, "pong", "V", "pubkey", "ipaddr", "port", 0 };
    static char *store[] = { (char *)store_func, "store", "V", "pubkey", "key", "name", "data", 0 };
    static char *findvalue[] = { (char *)findvalue_func, "findvalue", "V", "pubkey", "key", "name", "data", 0 };
    static char *findnode[] = { (char *)findnode_func, "findnode", "V", "pubkey", "key", "name", "data", 0 };
 
    // MofNfs
    static char *savefile[] = { (char *)savefile_func, "savefile", "V", "filename", "L", "M", "N", "backup", "password", "pin", 0 };
    static char *restorefile[] = { (char *)restorefile_func, "restorefile", "V", "filename", "L", "M", "N", "backup", "password", "destfile", "sharenrs", "txids", "pin", 0 };


As you can see quite a few API's are ready to test

James

Well, after back to back 30+ hour work "days", I got the new architecture pretty stable. Still some kinks, but for the most part working.

New commands:
{ "BTCDjson", "json" } // this supports sending SuperNET API commands
// there is also https access via web browser and curl and wget, so many ways to issue SuperNET API commands

{ "gotpacket", "msg", "dur", "ip_port" } // this is called when the BTCD gets a packet from one of its peers
{ "gotnewpeer", "ip_port" } // this is called when a new peer is discovered
{ "BTCDpoll" } // this mechanism is used to find out when the SuperNET wants to broadcast or narrowcast packets

{ "maketelepods", "amount", "coin" } // this creates telepods, must be multiples of 0.01
{ "telepodacct", "amount", "contact", "coin", "comment", "cmd", "withdraw" } // this command displays the current set of unspent telepods, either globally, by coin, by contact. also will support withdrawing telepods to a normal address and also create credit/debit journal entries. However, only the display of all the unspent telepods has been tested

Existing commands that at least worked in some cases.
   // Telepathy
    static char *getpeers[] = { (char *)getpeers_func, "getpeers", "V",  "scan", 0 };
    static char *addcontact[] = { (char *)addcontact_func, "addcontact", "V",  "handle", "acct", 0 };
    static char *removecontact[] = { (char *)removecontact_func, "removecontact", "V",  "contact", 0 };
    static char *dispcontact[] = { (char *)dispcontact_func, "dispcontact", "V",  "contact", 0 };
    static char *telepathy[] = { (char *)telepathy_func, "telepathy", "V",  "contact", "id", "type", "attach", 0 };
    static char *getdb[] = { (char *)getdb_func, "getdb", "V",  "contact", "id", "key", "dir", 0 };

    // Kademlia DHT
    static char *ping[] = { (char *)ping_func, "ping", "V", "pubkey", "ipaddr", "port", "destip", 0 };
    static char *pong[] = { (char *)pong_func, "pong", "V", "pubkey", "ipaddr", "port", 0 };
    static char *store[] = { (char *)store_func, "store", "V", "pubkey", "key", "name", "data", 0 };
    static char *findvalue[] = { (char *)findvalue_func, "findvalue", "V", "pubkey", "key", "name", "data", 0 };
    static char *findnode[] = { (char *)findnode_func, "findnode", "V", "pubkey", "key", "name", "data", 0 };
 
    // MofNfs
    static char *savefile[] = { (char *)savefile_func, "savefile", "V", "filename", "L", "M", "N", "backup", "password", "pin", 0 };
    static char *restorefile[] = { (char *)restorefile_func, "restorefile", "V", "filename", "L", "M", "N", "backup", "password", "destfile", "sharenrs", "txids", "pin", 0 };


As you can see quite a few API's are ready to test

James

anon tech that is not open source is not anything that anybody should use, regardless of what excuse is used

James

that's the plan, possibly a closer relationship
cant comment anymore about this yet

8000+ for nxt.flippoker.net
5000+ for supernet.flippoker.net

as near as I can tell it is real, but small wagers, plus there is a faucet, so maybe some people setup a bot?

i see 36000+ bets on btcd.flippoker.net!

unless you restarted after name change, it would have had no effect
now, the next time you restart it wont find the .conf file
but now that you have connected, you have a peers.dat so will still connect in the future
but any settings you are assuming in the .conf file wont be in effect

Pushed new version.

Due to various reasons, I decided to split out SuperNET into a separate executable from BitcoinDarkd. However, BitcoinDarkd will launch SuperNET as a child process and they are in tight communication. There were just too many deadlock scenarios and also this allows other coins to call into SuperNET directly, but there does need to have a coin like BTCD that is doing all the interfacing.

Anyway, to upgrade, make sure you have cmake installed.

cd btcd/libjl777
git pull
make patch0 # if you didnt patch for the DB support
make patch
make SuperNET
make btcd

I had to create a web interface at port :7777, so you can invoke it from the browser. It uses https with self-signed certificates, so you will have to tell the browser to accept this, or the "-k" option for curl and equivalent

https://localhost:7777/{"requestType":"getpeers"}

or

curl -k --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "SuperNET", "params": ["{\"requestType\":\"getpeers\"}"]  }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' https://localhost:7777/

or

wget --no-check-certificate https://localhost:7777/{\"requestType\":\"getpeers\"} -o stdout

or

./BitcoinDarkd SuperNET '{"requestType":"getpeers"}'

or two more internal variations that BitcoinDarkd uses to communicate to SuperNET!

It might not seem like much progress, but this required retooling the commands parsing, adding libwebsockets, revamping the BitcoinDarkd side, so it has been a long day. A nice side effect is that this should solve the reentrancy problems that was causing instability and also allows Windows and Mac builds to become much easier. Also, it allows the BDB database to work.

Sometimes you need to battle against systems issues to be able to get the actual code to run in the right context. Another key point is that technically now SuperNET is a standalonable executable, but it does need a coin that is fully integrated with it to properly function.

Oh, the database should work for this and that means things you store in the cloud will be there the next time you run the programs.

James

P.S. Currently SuperNET is launched by BitcoinDarkd but not as a child process, so to update you need to manually kill the process. just too tired to do this and also the polling for broadcast/narrowcasts

P.P.S. It is surving the infinite ping/pong stress test for 1000+ pings so far

it also seems the low ask is at .00986, which is really a few percent from ICO price. considering the bear market everything has been in, including BTC, UNITY price is holding up pretty well

James